Women in Horror Recognition Month 2011
Women in Horror Month is about setting time aside to grab people’s attention, raise awareness that women do in fact make horror films and do in fact love horror films. It’s about giving deserved...
View ArticleWomen in Horror Month: Ingrid Pitt
As women in horror movies go, Ingrid Pitt is one of the most iconic. She starred in Hammer Horror films The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, appeared in numerous other horror movies including The...
View ArticleScream Queens and Final Girls
"What's your favourite scary movie?" Horror has a confused relationship with women. On one hand, you’re more likely to have a female protagonist in a horror film than any other genre, except maybe...
View ArticleWomen in Horror Month: Zombina and the Skeletones
Alright. There’s one woman in horror that, if you know me at all, you’ll know I couldn’t avoid mentioning this month: Zombina Venus Hatchett, frontwoman of Zombina and the Skeletones. Zombina and the...
View ArticleWomen in Horror Month: Mary Shelley
This is going to be another Women in Horror post that isn’t actually about horror movies. Sorry about that. Without Mary Shelley, though, the horror genre would be a very different place; her creation...
View ArticleWomen in Horror Month: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
For a few years in my teens, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the most important thing in my world. I watched the original movie on TV one night and became obsessed with it, to the point where, when the TV...
View ArticleWomen in Horror Month: Jennifer’s Body
Sometimes, rarely, I’ll fall completely in love with a film. And it’s usually not a perfect film, or even a great film. But when you’re falling in love, superficial flaws hardly matter. I am utterly...
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